![]() ![]() ![]() She published seven novels, a study of the commedia dell'arte, and two volumes of literary interviews. From the 1940s through the '60s, she and her long-term partner, the novelist Kathleen Farrell, were at the heart of the London literary scene. Kay Dick (1915-2001) was the first female director of an English publishing house, promoted to the role at the age of twenty-six and mixing with what she described "a louche set" that included Ivy Compton-Burnett, Stevie Smith, and Muriel Spark. “Kay Dick’s mind is a delicate instrument, aware, sensitive, intelligent, alive to every shade of feeling and sensation.” - L. ![]() Harsh punishments await anyone bucking society’s norms in this eerie, atmospheric story from English writer Dick. Winner of the 1977 South-East Arts Literature Prize, Kay Dick’s They is an uncanny and prescient vision of a world hostile to beauty, emotion, and the individual. McNally Editions, 18 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-94. As the menacing “They” creep ever closer, a loosely connected band of dissidents attempt to evade the chilling mobs, but it’s only a matter of time until their luck runs out. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the purge. Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. They by Kay Dick / ISBN 9781946022288 / 112-page paperback from McNally EditionsĪ dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression-“queer, English, a masterpiece.” (Hilton Als) ![]()
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